Re:Engineers who dismiss AI
by rsynnott on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:02AM
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It is, at this point, rather suspect that there are mountains of anecdata, but pretty much no high quality quantitive data (and what there is is mixed at best). Fun fact; worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis. They think it works. It doesn't work.
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I don't suppose anything will change your mind, but here you go.
https://youtu.be/1OzxYK2-qsI a 6-12% increase in pull requests per developer per month.
"But those diffs are AI slop and rework" you will object. Oh well, I tried.
> Fun fact; worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis. They think it works. It doesn't work.
Homeopathy works for sure. Placebo works. There are many studies confirming that.